Poor Michael Isikoff of Newsweek Magazine has really done it now. He might even have to give up
the key to the executive washroom. But seriously, is his cluelessness just an act? How did he think that people who hate America irrationally will act? They certainly don’t need much of an excuse to kill people, or kill themselves along with other people, or fly planes into buildings for that matter. Muslims burning the American flag in far off streets is now the least of our worries.
Isikoff said in a published interview Tuesday morning: "Whenever something like this happens, you’ve got to take stock and review what you did – how the story was handled. The big point that leaps out is the cultural one. Neither NEWSWEEK nor the Pentagon foresaw that a reference to the desecration of the Koran was going to create the kind of response that it did. The Pentagon saw the item before it ran, and then they didn’t move us off it for 11 days afterward. They were as caught off guard by the furor as we were. We obviously blame ourselves for not understanding the potential ramifications."